Dog Soldier

Above are just a few images from the most recent concert from Dog Soldier. It was also the lead singer, Gabes, birthday. I am good friends with Gabe and the drummer in the band, Kevin Tooley. The three of us use to work together within an artist community off of Bowery in the Lower East Side. Kevin and I still try to find ways to work together as often as possible.

Hussle Club

So I had been taking a bit of a break from shooting music and bands, especially live performances. However recently certain things in my life have lead me to be drawn back to such work. One of my first returns to music photography was shooting Hussle Club at Hiro Ballroom in NYC. Here are some of my favorite images from that night.

Strange turn to a night of photo taking

I started planning to just take some product images, then it changed.

New Beauty Images for a Salon Client

Coffee images

I recently did portraits, and group shots of a phenomenal consulting group that works with restaurants, hotels, all those places on their drink programs. The group is recently branching off into a new area of the industry, coffee. We have started to do coffee shots for them, we did one shoot that went well but now have an even more clear image of what we want for the images and will have a second shoot to accomplish it all. I wanted to show this one image though that I liked most from the last shoot. What do you think so far????

New Food images from recent hotel job.

So am finishing up with my most recent job for Hyatt hotels boutique label, Andaz. This was a really fun assignment for me. The chef, Roberto is a fantastic guy and has done a phenomenal job with the food. The hotels design and interiors are wonderful, with stupendous structure and lines. There is so much natural light in the restaurant, The Shop, that we tried something new with this one and made the images brighter with natural light as the key and strobes for supplemental filler and emotional lighting. I brought a warmth to the images and the environment. I wanted it to be sort of chateau morning without ignoring the slickness and trendy New York side to the space. Let me know what you think!!!!

New In a New Light Image

Music

Music

Anna Rose

Food work revisited

So I was looking over some old work of mine and felt the drive to play with them a bit. As in my usual way not much, just some of the contrast, the tone curve, things of that sort. But I really like their new look, one or two I did even crop a bit. Here they are. Let me know what you think.

Artists wanted competition

Hey everyone, Halcyon Dream is in a competition online at the moment. It is called Artists Wanted. It is a two part competition for photographers. There is a public voting part, then another part that is decided by a very impressive judges panel. Unfortunately all of you don't play part in the judges decision, but please pray for Halcyon Dream to win. You can help however with the public voting part!!!!! Please help me out and go to the link below and vote five stars for me and my work. It would be amazing if you could tell all your friends to do the same as well, and you can vote again everyday so keep it going till the end!!! Please vote for me as much as you can and help me win, I could greatly use winning this and will be immensely grateful to you all. THANK YOU!!!!! You can help Halcyon Dream win some money that will go to planned fine art series and other work, and also will help Halcyon Dream have a exciting big gallery show and opening in New York City!!!!!! So please everyone vote away and help me win!!!!!

http://www.artistswanted.org/halcyondream

Kati

My darling friend Kate from russia surprised me with a visit recently. While she was here we took some photos, Here are a few of them.